So last time I posted, I wrote about failure cake. Specifically, I talked about my failure to remove cakes from shaped pans. This time: Victory.
Last Saturday I was able to successfully unmold forty small flower shaped cakes!
Rose-shaped victory cake
The plan for Cake Experiment was to change one variable at a time. For example, last time I tried using this ridiculous pan, I greased it with melted butter and used a honey cake mix. So this time, I should have tried changing the grease or the mix, but not both. In the interest of actually getting to eat the cake, experimental integrity be damned. I changed both. The largest contributing factor was most likley the grease. This time I used Baker’s Joy. It’s this neat-o spray that does the greasing and the flouring at once.
This is the baking spray of victory. Also shown: victory cake mix and victory pan.
Baker’s Joy (or some similar spray) gets into all the detailed bits of the pan with the oil AND the flour, so nothing sticks!
The cake mix may have helped a little, too. The only other time this pan worked even a little bit, I used the same mix (Duncan Gernam Chocolate, in case you were wondering). Cake Experiment: Phase Two will involve cake from scratch, plus Baker’s Joy. I’ll report back my findings.
Shaped pan filled with delicious batter, pre-victory. See how it glistens with Baker's Joy goodness?
